Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Sepia Saturday 91 : Saturday 10 September 2011

This photograph entitled "President Wilson on a Speaking Tour" dates from 1919 and is part of the on-line collection of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Archives made available via Flickr Commons. As always it will provide a variety of potential prompts for all those in search of a theme for Sepia Saturday 91. But what I like most of all about it is the contrasting action taking place within the photograph itself. The secret service man at the bottom left stares out of shot, the man at the top left keeps a watchful eye on his President, whilst the President and the admiring couple of the right make up a delightful triangle on interaction. Sometimes a good photograph can provide almost as much action as a short film! Whatever kind of action (or inaction) you are featuring in your old images, let them speak out by posting them on or around Saturday 10th September and linking them to the list below.

SEPIA SATURDAYis a weekly meme which encourages bloggers to publish and share old images and photographs. All that is required is for contributors to post an old image (it doesn't have to be in sepia) and provide a few words in explanation. If you could provide a link back to the Sepia Saturday Blog and visit as many of the other contributors as you can, it would also be appreciated. There is no weekly theme, as such, but some people like to use the archive image published with the weekly call as a kind of theme. There is no requirement to adopt such an approach : the choice of image is entirely up to you. Once you have published your Sepia Saturday post, add a link to that post to the Linky List published each week and leave a comment to let everyone know you are joining in.

I used the new Blogger interface too, and I like both the cleaner page layout and larger box for input. My entry this week is sort of on theme, but nothing to do with trains or politicians - best to leave the latter well alone!

Glad to be back. As usual, I am steering clear of the theme this week and following up my last Sepia Saturday post with a picture taken by the Box Brownie. Looking forward to getting round to visit everyone this week, sorry for my recent absence.

I descended......... almost into madness as I searched for the appropropiate links - am i a compulsiove themer? I’ve gone slightly more magazine style in my post this week - influenced by TonyZ and Ticklebear I think!

i changed computer, went from Vista to Windows 7 and lost some data in the process...

i also changed interface on blogger recently, and i love it. my only problem was with scheduling my post ahead of time as Blogger would insist i was on the west coast, not the east coast... thus changing my time zone!!

anyway, i survived and i'm giving you this week a SHORT post!! no trains nor politicians for me, BUT-I-AM-STILL-ON-THEME!! sort of...

sure, LITLLE NELL will blame it on me and Tony... means i'll have to check it out to see if i can feel my imprint on this now.;)~HUGZ

I just love the gazes in this photo. I have been quite busy these past weekends and have a lot of catching up to do on Sepia Saturday. I am off to cart children around today but I HAD to join up! I will be back Sunday evening (with a glass of wine) to enjoy all the entries!

I loved your post, and if you stop to think there is truly something going on in every photo. At least at that time someone was breathing and thinking. Mine is sentimental as I will be visiting with my dear uncle's family today.QMM

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.